Endocrine Abstracts

We investigated 49 patients with non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas: 11 males, 38 females, age 31–78 y.o. (median 61). Extrasellar tumor expansion was observed in 46 (93.9%) patients: suprasellar – 41 (83.7%), laterosellar 27 (55.1%), and infrasellar 18 (36.7%) patients; combined types of extrasellar expansion – 36 (73.5%) patients.Prolactin levels (PRL) varied from 115 to 1495 mU/l, hyperprolactinemia was found in 27 (55.1%) patients...